Anybody can give us a hint how to treat this best, if this can be achieved with „standards“ of pimcore?
Render a PDF with dynamic content and merge it with a PDF which has legal information.
Then send final pdf via email.
The PDF should be able to designed with HTML
You can use the Web2Print Documents to create and render the first PDF with dynamic content. To modify the PDF afterwards, you can hook into the PDF generation process (Pimcore 4 example):
\Pimcore::getEventManager()->attach("document.print.postPdfGeneration", function (\Zend_EventManager_Event $e) {
$document = $e->getTarget();
$pdf = $e->getParam("pdf");
Once you got that PDF, you can merge it with other PDFs like described here: Merge PDF files with PHP
Sending it via email should be easy at this point.
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Previously i was working with dompdf in laravel application to generate invoices.. Its taking time in generating invoices but working perfectly . Below is the code of dompdf to generate invoice by just sending the view.
PDF::setOptions(['dpi' => 150, 'defaultFont' => 'sans-serif']);
// pass view file
view()->share('account_invoice',$account_invoice);
view()->share('account_invoice_item',$account_invoice_item);
$pdf = PDF::loadView('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template');
But now i am working with FPDF. Is there anything like dompdf to pass view to generate PDF.
$pdf = new FPDF();
View::make('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template');
I know my code is incorrect for FPDF but any idea how can i pass view to FPDF to generate pdf so i can send it by attactment.
It looks like your goal is to dump raw html onto the pdf and have it be formatted accordingly? Take a look at this tutorial, it might help, but I'd actually recommend a different approach.
Basically, fpdf is has no html writer built in, at least none as far as I'm aware. So I'd recommend a pdf writer with better out of the box support for your needs. Take a look at Snappy and wkhtmltopdf. With Snappy and wkhtmltopdf you can pretty easily generate pdfs on the fly by passing it html, as you're attempting to in your examples.
<?php
use Knp\Snappy\Pdf;
$snappy = new Pdf('/path/to/wkhtmltopdf');
$snappy->generateFromHtml(View::make('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template'), '/tmp/invoice.pdf');
I have many PDFs that are generated and uploaded to my server.
The problem is they contain the same page three times (3 pages in total with the same content).
My goal is to edit the PDF with PHP so that it contains only one page.
Is there any library that allows me to simply load a PDF and keep only the first page?
Thank you!
Using FPDI, you can create a function to extract the first page of a PDF file:
function first_page ($path) {
$pdf = new FPDI();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->setSourceFile($path);
$pdf->useTemplate($pdf->importPage(1));
return $pdf;
}
Then output the extracted PDF as you would do with FPDF:
// Extract first page from /path/to/my.pdf
// and output it to browser with filename "MyPDF".
first_page('/path/to/my.pdf')->Output('MyPDF', 'I');
FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/) or MDPF (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php) are great libraries for work with PDF files. I have experiences only with creating PDF; but I assume that one of those libraries can solve your problem.
Edit: Here is some example with FPDF
https://gist.github.com/maccath/3981205
I have PDF form files that I fill out dynamically with PHP using FPDM (the FPDF script). I can save them on my server no problem, and the text all looks fine in the PDF when I download and view in Acrobat.
My problem is: I'm trying to merge multiple PDF files together on the server so the user can download a single PDF document with several pages. I downloaded PDF Merger (http://pdfmerger.codeplex.com/) and got it merging the files together, but this causes the PDF form text to disappear.
Anyone know of a form-friendly PHP-based PDF merger that doesn't require installing anything (other than uploading libraries) to my server?
Code that works for merging but kills text in form boxes:
$pdfCombined= new PDFMerger;
$pdfCombined->addPDF('../forms/generated/16.pdf', 'all')
->addPDF('../forms/generated/19.pdf', 'all')
->merge('browser', 'mergedDoc.pdf');
The linked "PDF Merger" simply uses FPDI in the back. FPDI is not able to handle dynamic content as described here.
A pure PHP solution for merging PDF forms is the SetaPDF-Merger component (not free). An evaluation requires the installation of a Loader (Ioncube or Zend Guard). License owners will get access to the source code, so that no external library is needed. The usage is also that easy:
require_once("library/SetaPDF/Autoload.php");
// create a file writer
$writer = new SetaPDF_Core_Writer_Http("mergedDoc.pdf");
// create a new merger instance
$merger = new SetaPDF_Merger();
// add the files
$merger->addFile('../forms/generated/16.pdf');
$merger->addFile('../forms/generated/19.pdf');
// merge all files
$merger->merge();
// get the resulting document and set the writer instance
$document = $merger->getDocument();
$document->setWriter($writer);
// save the file and finish the writer
$document->save()->finish();
I have been looking and testing this for a couple days now and was wondering if anyone could point me in a different direction. I have a very long job application HTML form (jobapp.html) and a matching PDF (jobpdf.pdf) that have the same field names for all entries in both the HTML form and the PDF. I need to take the user data that is entered in the form and convert it to a PDF. This is what I have gathered so far but don't know if I am on track:
Is pdftk the only viable 3rd party app to accomplish this?
Using pdftk would i take the $_POST data collected for the user and generate a .fdf(user.fdf) then flatten the .fdf on the .pdf(job.pdf). So irreguarless of where the fields are located on each document the information on the fdf would populate the pdf by field names?
I have been trying
http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/tutorial.php
I have also looked at "Submit HTML form to PDF"
I have used fpdf several times to create php-based pdf documents. An example following:
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', '', 'georgia.php');
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', 'B', 'georgiab.php');
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', 'I', 'georgiai.php');
# Add UTF-8 support (only add a Unicode font)
$pdf->AddFont('freesans', '', 'freesans.php', true);
$pdf->SetFont('freesans', '', 12);
$pdf->SetTitle('My title');
$pdf->SetAuthor('My author');
$pdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage', 'single');
$pdf->SetLeftMargin(20);
$pdf->SetRightMargin(20);
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
$pdf->Output();
You can learn very fast with these tutorials from the website itself.
EDIT: Example to save form data: (yes, is very easy...)
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
foreach ($_POST as $key =>$data)
{
$pdf->Write(5, "$key: $data"); //write
$pdf->Ln(10); // new line
}
$pdf->Output($path_to_file . 'file.txt','F'); // save to file
Look at these pages created with fpdf, really!
http://www.fpdf.org/
That would be the library to do it. I used it here to add images to a form and submit it to create a PDF with those images: http://productionlocations.com/locations
The actual code to do it is pretty complex.
I have found PrinceXML very easy to use. It takes your HTML/XML, applies CSS, and converts it into a PDF. The PHP extensions work very well. Unfortunately, it's not free.
One way you can consider is using an online API that converts any HTML to PDF. You can send them a generated HTML (easier to produce) that will contains your user's submitted data, and receive back a high fidelity PDF.
There are quite a few services available on the market. I like to mention PDFShift because it offers a package in PHP that simplifies the work for you.
Once you've installed it (using Composer, or downloaded it directly, depending on your choices) you can quickly convert an HTML document like this:
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use \PDFShift\PDFShift;
PDFShift::setApiKey('{your api key}');
PDFShift::convertTo('https://link/to/your/html', null, 'invoice.pdf');
And that's it. There are quite a few features you can implement (accessing secured documents, adding a watermark, and more).
Hope that helps!
I am converting a classic ASP application to PHP.
In the Classic ASP app, we are programatically populating fields that have been created in PDF documents using a component called ASPpdf.
I need to reproduce this behavior in PHP, but need to know if PHP can populate PDF fields on its own or if any third party plug in is needed.
Is this functionlity posible in PHP with or without a plug in?
Thanks.
Note: I already have the PDFs created, I do not need to create the actual PDF. I need to grab a preexisting PDF with form fields, populate those form fields and then save that custom PDF.
This is the first google search result I got, is there a reason this doesn't work for you?
http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/tutorial.php
UPDATE
After reading a little further, this generates an FDF (which Acrobat can read). To generate an actual PDF you'll need to use this: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
The resolution to my problem was to use the same COM component I used in Classic ASP in my new PHP apps. The COM object give me tremendous control over PDF documents.
The component I use is AspPdf
<?php
$pdf = new COM("Persits.Pdf") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$pdfdoc = $pdf->OpenDocument( "pdf.pdf" );
$pdffont = $pdfdoc->Fonts("Helvetica-Bold");
$pdfdoc->Form->RemoveXFA();
$pdffield = $pdfdoc->Form->FindField("FirstName");
$pdffield->SetFieldValue("PHP Text", $pdffont);
$pdffile = $pdfdoc->save( "php.pdf" , false);
echo $pdf->version;
$pdf = null;
?>
It looks as though the pdftk PDF toolkit may be able to do this. Reading the manual:
fill_form < FDF data filename | XFDF data filename | - | PROMPT >
Fills the single input PDF’s form fields with the data from an FDF file, XFDF file or stdin. Enter the data filename after fill_form, or use - to pass the data via stdin, like so:
pdftk form.pdf fill_form data.fdf output form.filled.pdf